Runoff election in Düsseldorf: bang! Keller does it - OB Geisel admits bankruptcy

In Düsseldorf, the 2020 local elections brought an open race for the office of Lord Mayor.

The result of the runoff had to decide.

• The results of the local elections in North Rhine-Westphalia brought the city a runoff for the office of Lord Mayor.

• We report on election day in the state with the news ticker for the runoff election in NRW.

• Here you will find the results of the mayoral elections and results for the Ruhr Parliament.

Result of the runoff election in Düsseldorf - Mayor Geisel clearly voted out

Update from September 27, 2020, 7.49 p.m.:

This election was lost for Thomas Geisel.

The mayor publicly acknowledged this even before the full counting of all votes.

After the runoff election, Stephan Keller will be able to rule as mayor in Düsseldorf.

Update from September 27, 2020, 6:51 p.m.:

365 out of 454 voting districts have now been counted.

Thomas Geisel (SPD) threatens to lose the state capital.

For the CDU, Stephan Keller holds 53.79 percent of the votes counted at the top so far.

With such a result of the runoff election, Keller would be the Düsseldorf mayor.

Update from September 27, 2020, 6 p.m.:

The polling stations are now closing and the counting of the runoff results in Düsseldorf can begin.

Update from September 27, 2020, 5:09 p.m.:

In Düsseldorf, the result of the runoff election is more open than in almost any other city.

Nevertheless, the final result should already be known on election evening.

The polling stations close at 6 p.m. and the counting of the votes is expected to produce meaningful interim results in the following hours.

In the course of the evening we will inform you at this point about who will soon rule the state capital.

+++ Here you will receive the numbers on the outcome of the runoff election in Cologne on September 27th.

The OB election is expected to be finished in the evening +++

Official results of the local elections in Düsseldorf - the runoff result must decide

Update from September 14th:

The decision in the OB election has been postponed because no candidate won an absolute majority in the first ballot.

The two best-placed candidates will now compete against each other in the runoff election.

These are the full results of the

in Düsseldorf:

• Dr.

  Keller (CDU): 34.15%

• Hostage (SPD): 26.27%

• Engstfeld (GREEN): 17.38%

• Dr.

  Strack-Zimmermann (FDP): 12.52%

• Bonn (DIE LINKE): 2.15%

• Hoffmann (AfD): 2.69%

• Olejak (PIRATE): 0.32%

• Dr.

  Grumbach (FREE VOTERS): 0.49%

• Maniera (REP): 0.13%

• Krüger (ANIMAL PROTECTION here!): 0.79%

• Builder (individual applicant): 0.39%

• Brakonier (DSP): 0.16%

• Coldewe (climate list Düsseldorf): 0.39%

• Mirus (The PARTY): 1.24%

• Gift (volts): 0.92%

In the

, the individual lists produced the following results:

• CDU: 33.36%

• SPD: 17.92%

• GREEN: 24.01%

• FDP: 9.15%

• DIE LINKE: 4.06%

• AfD: 3.58%

• PIRATES: 0.60%

• FREE VOTERS: 0.90%

• REP: 0.24%

• ANIMAL WELFARE here !: 1.40%

• DSP: 0.26%

• Climate list Düsseldorf: 0.87%

• The PARTY: 1.78%

• Volt: 1.84%

• RESISTANCE 2020 We for Düsseldorf: 0.03%

Last results from election evening of the 2020 local elections in Düsseldorf - runoff is imminent

Update from September 13, 11:09 p.m.:

Hostage against Keller will be the duel in the runoff election.

That much is already clear while the city of Düsseldorf is still waiting for the final results from individual voting districts.

The candidates from the SPD and CDU will win the

in two weeks.

Even for the result of the

, not much had to be counted in the late evening.

The current status:

(32.92 percent) ahead of the

(24.17 percent),

(18.10 percent),

(9.01 percent),

(4.15 percent) and

(3.63 Percent).

Update from September 13, 8:41 p.m.:

The gaps at the top remain almost unchanged while the counting of the votes continues.

Constant is

at around 31 percent, while

moves around 28 percent.

The path to the runoff election with these two candidates seems almost certain.

Update from September 13th, 7:38 pm:

Not quite half of the electoral districts are counted in the state capital and there is still a picture that

would bring

the candidates Keller (CDU) and Geisel (SPD) into the

.

Keller is now ahead of Geisel (28.6 percent) with 31 percent.

The path to the runoff for these two candidates seems relatively clear.

A tie in the mayor election in Düsseldorf - the local election is entering an exciting phase

Update from September 13, 6.44 p.m.:

A look at the first numbers initially shows a tie between Dr.

Stephan Keller (CDU) and Thomas Geisel (SPD).

Both candidates range between 30 and 31 percent of the vote after 16 of 454 electoral districts have been counted.

Big changes are still possible until the final result of the local election.

Check out this post on Instagram

Today are local elections in Düsseldorf.

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Update from September 13th, 6:20 p.m.:

Voters still have to be patient until the results of the local elections in Düsseldorf are counted.

An interesting question might be how voters compared to the national average.

A

sees the CDU at 36 percent, the SPD at 23.5 percent and the Greens at 19 percent.

Update from September 13th, 6 p.m.:

The voters have made their decision - from now on the

and the election workers determine the election results from Düsseldorf.

Here we give you all the updates on numbers and results that will be published from now on.

Concrete interim results from Düsseldorf - even without real extrapolation

Update from September 13, 5:40 p.m.:

In contrast to other elections, there is no real extrapolation in local elections that includes voter surveys.

But there are the actual numbers from the already counted polling stations.

Although they do not represent a representative value for the entire city, they offer the voters a good indication of how the voters decided - even if it is not a statistical extrapolation

Update from September 13, 4:20 p.m.:

As the city of Düsseldorf announced, this time 470,655 eligible voters will be able to decide on the election result.

It remains to be seen how high the turnout will actually be.

It's about the post of Lord Mayor, the 82 seats in the City Council of Düsseldorf and the ten district councils, each with 19 seats.

All the results of the local elections in Düsseldorf - the count starts at 6 p.m.

Update from September 13, 2:15 p.m

.: The

also

in

- then the votes are counted.

A bit of patience is required before the first figures are available, but as a rule there will be some interim results as soon as individual electoral districts have been counted.

At least the OB election that is processed first should already be fixed on election evening, provided there are no unforeseen delays.

Whenever new data is published, we will inform you here in the results ticker for the local elections in Düsseldorf.

Local election NRW 2020: The first projections will be available from 6 p.m.

Düsseldorf - In the 2020 local elections, several elections will take place simultaneously in Düsseldorf.

Only the results for the

and the individual

certain after the first ballot on September

.

When electing the

, it depends on how this ends.

Only if a candidate receives at least 50 percent of the valid votes is that sufficient to become mayor.

If no candidate gets the required number of votes,

held

on

and the decision will be made.

Results of the local elections in Düsseldorf: The counting of the elections begins at 6 p.m.

When

close

at

on the dot, the

staff will then start counting.

Only when all votes from all electoral districts have been counted and added up is a result certain.

Ballot papers received via postal voting may also only be counted after 6 p.m.

As soon as the results are known, they will also appear on our voting card for the mayoral elections in NRW.

Mayor election in Düsseldorf: when will there be a result?

The order of the individual counts is clearly regulated.

First, the election of the

counted, which is why the result of the OB election will be known first.

The incumbent Lord Mayor

is standing for election again this year.

In the last election in 2014, he was only able to

prevail

in the runoff election against the

candidate.

This year,

, who has already worked as an alderman in the

, will stand

for the CDU

.

Council election in Düsseldorf: When will the results for the city council and district council be available?

Since

only one cross may be made on the respective ballot paper

for all

, the counting of the elections is relatively simple.

Since the

only counted when the OB election has been counted, delays in individual polling stations are excluded, the

already certain on the evening of the election - although not certain.

A delay in implementation can also occur due to the corona protective measures.

Finally, the

counted.

A

representative is elected

for each of the ten

.

As a rule,

are known no later than the

.

Further election results beyond Düsseldorf

offers you

its own overview of the election results

for other major cities,

as does the general results ticker for the runoff elections in NRW.

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Who was elected in Düsseldorf in the last local elections?

In the last elections in Düsseldorf,

able to

prevail in the runoff election for the post of Lord Mayor against the CDU.

In the city council,

however

, the

was

able to

win the most with 31 seats.

The

was the second largest force with 24 seats.

The distribution of the remaining seats was as follows: The

got eleven, the

four and the

, in cooperation with the

Party

, still got three.

,

and the

were each awarded one seat.

Important information about local elections in Düsseldorf

Where can I cast my vote on election night and influence the political landscape in Düsseldorf?

How do I participate in the postal vote and by when do I have to apply for it?

The most important

can be found on the documents of the election notification that every

receives.

If you want to get an idea of ​​the current

before the election

, you can take a

look at the

here

.

For the starting position in other cities, please consult our pages for Wuppertal, Bochum, Duisburg, Essen, Dortmund and Cologne.

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